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period disavow all that had been done , as had been the case with the Charter of 1814 . The whole press repeated this demand , and it became that of the mass of the people . The Journal des Ddbats undertook the defence of the Chamber , which was delighted to find itself with such a support in the midst of so many attacks . Some mutual concessions were
made on both sides , and it became at length what we now see it : the Chamber , united with the aristocracy of the restoration , accepts its support , aud it lends them its influence . The Journal des Debats labours , then , to preserve under the new order of things
all the elements of the old destroyed order ; the Chamber , with all its numerous creatures , to whom it delivers over the budget , is united to it ; the victorious majority imagines that the revolution was ~ only a movement of see-saw , aud that its end was accomplished wheu they had taken the places and divided the spoils of" the vanquished minority .
Notwithstanding the merit of former services , and its brilliant conduct during the revolution , the Terns must be placed by the side of the Journal des Debats , Like this journal , it is desirous that aristocracy should form part of the new constitution , and , like it , supports this party in the Chamber of 1830 .
With great general knowledge , but with less literary talent , Le Terns demands , like it , and with still greater force , an organization after the English fashion . It professes on all occasious a haughty contempt of political economy , and shews great ignorance of that science , aud a profound disdain for all theories , which is easy when there is not sufficient knowledge or conscience to form them into truths .
Established under the patronage of the opposition of 1829 , it has followed the same lot ; popular when it was liberal , disgraced in public opinion as an ambitious speculation when it became retrograde . * The ' * Messager de Chambres" is only
* The decided success of the "Terns " is owing to other causes with which we have at present nothing to do $ to the excellence of its arrangements , to the variety and quantity Of matter it contains , although the best taste is not always displayed in the choice of subjects j to a t ypographical elegance before unknown in France ; and above all , to the talents of the Editor , who has shewn wonderful skill in the difficult management of a newspaper .
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a journal of news , and without political influence ; it supports likewise the party of the aristocracy . This publication justifies its adherence to every power , by a reasoning not without some ingenuity ; it pretends that the duty of the press ,
and likewise of all citizens , is to ally themselves with the majority ; therefore , as it is impossible to govern without a majority , real or pretended , it follows that the bounden duty of a journal is always to be ministerial . This conclusion is an incontestible truth .
We may easily conceive that the champious of the aristocracy would not be so uuskilful as to expose it to stand alone ; their tactics were to endeavour to form for it a rampart of citizens . The National Guard having displayed the greatest attachment to peace and to social order , they pretended that they were attached to projects which could only be executed by the sacrifice of peace and of social order .
It is only necessary to contemplate the state of the country , to see that this pretence is either an error or a falsehood . Aud , moreover , every man who has an exact idea of the state of Europe , not by the study of diplomatic secrets , but by the study of the people , aud seeing the state of misery in which the lower classes
now are , must be convinced that the formal separation of the citizens from them , to form a new aristocracy , would be the most deplorable event that could happen . The day that saw it accomplished would be one when Europe would be near terrible convulsions , aud on the brink of a war of the many for extermination and pillage .
In fine , we cannot find in the journals of Resistance" any grand or philosophical views , any moral and historical theories , which link the present with the past and the future ; aud it is this , perhaps , which condemns them to a
certain aud speedy death , as well as the party whom they defend . In reviewing the journals of the Mouvement , * the Courier Fran $ ais ought to be placed at the head , whether from being the oldest , and from never having changed its course , or whether it be on account of the cele
brated writers who have so ofteu contributed to it . The names of those celebrated men justify the Courier from the reproach or the praise that it has pretended to avoid the question of republic *
* That is , those in favour of the progressive improvement of the constitution .
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Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous . * 40 \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/41/
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